12 Year-old Girl Attacked by a Pit Bull

Many practical alternatives to breed-specific policies exist and hold promise for preventing dog bites."

The CDC is against breed specific legislation.

Each year, 4.7 million Americans are bitten by dogs. These bites result in approximately 16 fatalities; about 0.0002 percent of the total number of people bitten.These relatively few fatalities offer the only available information about breeds involved in dog bites. There is currently no accurate way to identify the number of dogs of a particular breed, and consequently no measure to determine which breeds are more likely to bite or kill.

This from the cdc website if you want the link message me privately as it is long.

"A CDC study on fatal dog bites lists the breeds involved in fatal attacks over 20 years (Breeds of dogs involved in fatal human attacks in the United States between 1979 and 1998). It does not identify specific breeds that are most likely to bite or kill, and thus is not appropriate for policy-making decisions related to the topic.

I wasnt responding to that comment, I was replying to the one where you think BSL means locking up people because of the type of dog they have. I do agree that we have separate views and should move on, your the ignorant one by assuming I dont love animals, perhaps myself and those who are proBSL just love other humans more and are willing to put other humans above property.

understand-a-bullDOTcom. Go to the link called all dogs bite.

the response to you saying no about all of us agreeing that we all have different views and we all should move on with it is that i am trying to be the bigger person and realizing that this is getting nowhere because you obviously are ingnorate and do not love animals. you do realise that for every dog there is an owner? if someone raises a dog to be aggressive he or she will be. if some one raises a dog to be a big baby he or she will be.For an ex. my neighbor has a non violent pitbull.

No, but your the one trying to put dogs and people on the same level, they are not, dogs are property. Looking at dogs as property, like they are, is what proBSL people have done to get BSL passed. You cant go to a courthouse hearing or city meeting and try to convince people that dogs and people are the same. Just think about it, thats is your main problem and also on of the reasons why BSL is getting passed, because proBSL dont think of dogs as human, they use the Law to get BSL passed.

I think myself, and all of you who've debated with me on this issue could duke it out for hours, and still get nowhere. Lets just come to an agreement on the fact that we have different views, allright?

Are you justifying locking people up just because of the type of dog they have? Even if they are responsible owners? Don't we have more pressing matters to worry about these days (sutch as National Security) as opposed to what type of dog someone owns?

Sorry but thats the law, dogs are property.

I think we can agree on one thing: The entire pit bull issue is based on oppinion. I don't think we'll ever know for certain whether or not this breed is naturally vicious. You guys have your views, I have mine. Lets just accept that and move forward.

That dog by the way, had one heck of a bite force!

You actually made me laugh because you resorted to mocking me! To answer your question, yes, I still have that arm, butt if I hadn't jerked it back and backed away from the fence, the situation could've been a lot more grave. As I said to Bedlas, why don't we just agree to disagree.

Oh, that's relevent! No matter how severe the attack is, it's still an attack!

Bedlas, you F**king dumb ass! We're watching the same video, we just have opposing views. How about we just agree to disagree and have done with it!